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Example sentences for: dire

How can you use “dire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

While AILA has joined the ACLU and other organizations in a Freedom of Information Act request to find out who is being detained where and why, Mohammed notes that the reasons for the immigrants' detention were not immediately clear and sometimes had dire consequences.
Voir dire is short and precise and intelligible; in my opinion, this distinction can be claimed by many other terms of art, including tort, fee simple, easement, mens rea , and prima facie case.
' An obviously ineffectual operation or dire predicament, cynically anticipated because typical; perfect opposite of OK.
Candidates apparently also feel that party officials have discouraged donations by making dire predictions of a loss of as many as 25 Democratic House seats.
His academic writings on how to interpret facial expressions have been used by lawyers to figure out which potential jurors to eject during voir dire and by gamblers to figure out the giveaway signs of a card player's bluff.